On redundancy in artificial languages

W. P. Lehmann


Abstract
Artificial languages are one concern of work in computational linguistics, if only as a mnemonic device for interlinguas which will be developed. Even if it does not gain wider use, the structure of an artificial language is of general interest. In contrast to the artificial languages which have been widely proposed, linguistic principles underlying a welldesigned artificial language and its usefulness are wellestablished, particularly through Trubetzkoy’s article, TCLP 8.5-21. which indicates phonological limitations for such a language. Since Trubetzkoy’s specifications yield a total of approximately 11,000 morphemes, if an artificial language incorporated the degree of redundancy found in natural languages it would be severely handicapped by the size of its lexicon. The paper discusses the problem particularly with regard to suprasegmentals, which Trubetzkoy almost entirely ignored.
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1963.earlymt-1.23
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Proceedings of the Annual meeting of the Association for Machine Translation and Computational Linguistics
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25-26 August
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1963
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Denver, Colorado
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W. P. Lehmann. 1963. On redundancy in artificial languages. In Proceedings of the Annual meeting of the Association for Machine Translation and Computational Linguistics, Denver, Colorado.
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On redundancy in artificial languages (Lehmann, EarlyMT 1963)
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